THE UPRISING OF A GREAT PEOPLE.
THE UNITED STATES IN 1861.
TO WHICH IS ADDED
A WORD OF PEACE
ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND
THE UNITED STATES.
FROM THE FRENCH OF
COUNT AGÉNOR DE GASPARIN
BY MARY L. BOOTH.
NEW AMERICAN EDITION
FROM THE AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION.
1862.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
TO THE REVISED AMERICAN EDITION.
The edition of the Uprising of a Great People which we issue herewith, has been carefully revised to conform to the new edition of the original work, just published at Paris. The author has corrected several errors of fact, which were noted by American reviewers on the appearance of the translation, and has also made sundry changes in the work, designed to bring it down to the present time, and to adapt its counsels to the new light that is breaking in upon us in the progress of events. These changes, however, have been few, and relate chiefly to the policy of emancipation, for so truly has this remarkable book proved a prophecy, that the author, on reviewing it after a lapse of several eventful months, can find nothing to strike out as having proved untrue. We are indebted to the kindness of Count de Gasparin for one or two corrections of trifling biographical misstatements in the translator's preface.